5 Pisces. 
PISCES. 
North America. 
Report of U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, vi., for 1878. Wash- 
ington : 1880, large 8vo, 988 pp. 
Consists of — A. Inquiry into the decrease of food-fishes ; b. The pro- 
pagation of food-fishes in the waters of the United States. 
Lockington, W. N. Notes on the Salmonidce of California. Am. Nat. 
xiv. pp. 366-368. 
. On the Clupeidce of the Pacific Coast. L. c. pp. 518 & 519. 
. On New and Rare Fishes of the Pacific Coast. L. c. pp. 595-600. 
^ South America. 
I / Gunther, A. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Fish Fauna of 
I the Rio de la Plata. Ann. N. H. (5) vi. pp. 7-13. 
V 59 species mentioned, 9 of which are described as new. 
/ L. Vai LEANT gives an account of the Siluridce collected by Dr. Jobert 
, in Calderon, Upper Amazons. 34 species are recorded ; 3 of them are 
, described as new. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iv. pp. 150-159. 
r 
St. Paulas Island. 
Sauvage, H. E. M^moire sur la Faune ichthyologique de Pile St. Paul. 
Arch. Z. expdr. viii. pp. 1-46, pis. i.-iii. 
18 species have been found up to now in this interesting station ; 3 are 
described as new. 
PALA5ICHTHYES. 
CHONDROPTBRYGII. 
Parker, T. J. On the Intestinal Spiral Valve in the Genus Raia. Tr. 
Z. S. xi. pp. 49-61, pis. xi. &. xii. 
} . On the Venous System of the Skate (Raia nasutd). Tr. N. Z. 
L.. Inst. xiii. pp. 413-418, pi. xv. 
On the Batoidei collected in the Amazons by Dr. Jobert ; Vaillant, 
Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iv. p. 251. 
Carcharias (Scoliodon) crenidens, sp. n., Klunzinger, SB. Ak. Wien, 
ixxx. Abth. i. p. 426, pi. viii. fig. 3, Queensland. 
Scyllium ventricosum^ sp. n., Garman, Bull. Mus. C. Z. vi. p. 167, 
Valparaiso. 
Spinax granulosus^ sp. n., Gunther, Zool. Challenger Exp. i, pt. 6, p. 19, 
pi. ii. fig. c, S.W. coa^t of S. America. 
Rhina squatina (L.) described and figured by F. McCoy, Prodr. Zool. 
Viet., Dec. 4, pi. xxxiv. [1879]. 
